conorgrocock 2018-08-14 12:47
The game is enjoyable, but after a while the music starts to become repetative. A way to change the music volume, I had to change it in windows mixer, which meant I lost some of the talking
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Spacetime Landlord Tycoon
By mechanicallife, LandbergLife, kimonoh, Glowt, Molvin, MrSonne and Tannimun
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 692 | 3.29 | 67 | |
| Fun | 754 | 3.07 | 65 | |
| Innovation | 540 | 3.22 | 66 | |
| Theme | 529 | 3.57 | 66 | |
| Graphics | 274 | 3.92 | 67 | |
| Audio | 374 | 3.27 | 65 | |
| Humor | 229 | 3.35 | 62 | |
| Mood | 588 | 3.13 | 62 |
The game is enjoyable, but after a while the music starts to become repetative. A way to change the music volume, I had to change it in windows mixer, which meant I lost some of the talking
Looks amazing can't wait to try it out! :)
I love the game's visual style! The amount of asset work you accomplished in such a short time is very impressive! Helping people find their personal grooves in the apartment is much more relaxing with the chill audio in the background, and overall I found the experience rather meditative.
In terms of ways to improve, I think the scheduling and log UI could be cleaned up/clarified a little. The formatting within the log seemed rather random, and its not immediately clear how to use the scheduling feature (although that could also be done with a tutorial piece instead).
Really enjoyable game and impressive work for the time frame! Well done!
It does look amazing! the hand drawn menu works really well. Interesting in combination with the 3D environment. I did have a hard time getting the hang of it. The music could use some variation aswell. Impressive result for such a complex idea!
Quite straightforward, fits nicely with the theme, game loop easily understandable. Quite a lot of clicking when assigning schedules, you can click and drag but that also moves the list up and down so not sure if that was intended. Voice acting was very nice! Well done!
Good game!
I just play a little, on the first impression (that is first 15 to 30 minutes) feel unbalance. The big problem I feel is lack off clarity when I was making money or not.
I thought that I have to make then happy and receve a daily rent, but apparently wasn't right (or working).
And I take good 10 minutes to understand how to move the first char to somewhere, until I reset and reread the tutorial.
Well this is my feedback. Everything else seen fine for me.
Fantastic entry; the concept and presentation is great and adorable, there is a surprising amount of depth added through the different Inhabitants and the voice lines make it obvious that you had a lot of fun creating this one :^) I made it to the second week before a bug sadly did me in; an inhabitant kept dying even though he was already dead and thus in the span of 2 days I had about 12 ghosts in the house; but not a lot of other Jam games can pull me in for the time I played so really outstanding job. Excited for your next entries!
Wow great idea for a game!
This seems really interesting but I can't really play it since I'm not on a windows system. Though I would love to try it out!
I found the scheduler but most of my people would just hang outside getting angry. I scheduled them to go inside but they would not go inside. Other than that the game has some great writing and voice acting. I found myself laughing a lot.
I love it. I really miss those tycoon type of games, it's somewhat rare for me to see them nowadays. It's great how you guys did it for a jam since it's well polished. The voices are quite cool and funny, as are the descriptions.
I got a lot of people in my house. Two people left and killed (literally killed D:?) two other people. Another one turned into a ghost. But I was somewhat managing it, some people were extremely happy, others not so much. I think I could perfect the schedule if I wanted to.
Also, the zombie is cool.
@tinykidtoo This is a bug that has appeared and been, or as we tough, fixed may times. We will take a look at it. In the meantime try restarting the game and see if that helps :)
Very Nice!!
The Artstyle is very good and i like the idea - but the gameplay isn't very intuitive. I saw in the screenshots that i can moove the characters but i couldn't really do it. A good manual is missing here - overall it is a very great game :)
What a Lovely Tycoon. I really enjoyed playing the game, and the Art was amazing. WELL DONE!
Interesting gameplay
It'a a pretty neat idea, and I liked the art style.
It took me a little while to understand how to do some things, like the scheduler.
But it was a cool game jam game.
I like your hand-drawn art style!
Cool artstyle, nice humor, nice soundtrack, totally respects the theme, one of the best games I played in this jam so far I must say ^^
I can't move people in :/ How to do that? Please help
@sandra-jasionowska you have to open the whiteboard/schedue in top left corner and schedule them what hours you want them in which room. You select the character in the bottom bar while at the whiteboard
@tannimun Thanks!
Great idea, looks amazing ! But I can't figured out how to let Niklas enter :/ Music is nice but really repeatitive I love the gaphic style and voices are just genious :)
@thibaultar Hello, I'm Niklas, You can let me in by opening the schedule in the top left corner, then clicking my Icon in the bottom left corner and assigning me to a timeslot by clicking or dragging.
@landberglife aaaah i see, i'll try again ^^'
Rules are not cleary explained but it's a fun game when controls have been understood.
Wow! This one of the best game I have tested so far! It takes me a moment to understand how to make the roommates really enter the flat.
The art work is super cool!!! I watched a friend from my team play it and will try it myself tomorrow. They found the menus and tasks somewhat confusing ... but yeah, I'll from my own opinion soon.
Super cool you guys got this much done in such a short time! Impressive!!
Wow... I played this WAY longer than I thought I would. Even so, there doesn't seem to be an end objective? Eventually there is just too many people that all the time slots are filled. Great management game nonetheless, I didn't experience any bugs on my mind. The game was pretty intimidating at first and I had trouble understanding how to play or more so how to get the person inside the house. The UI was a little dodgy and dragging it was a real pain as I couldn't seem to grab it and it was slightly off the screen. The game had a lot of variation with the different characters and really had some strategy in placing them at certain areas at certain times with consideration to their traits. The theme is used quite well in this game. Sound effects + music were nice but I kept getting the same "Can I come in? I have cookies" thing which to be honest I found a little annoying. Graphics were decent. Great game overall, really enjoyed playing it.
very cool graphics guys, and interactive gameplay, I originally thought that this game is similar to the game SOFAMINO, but your game is perfectly executed. I think if you finish it, you can publish to the store
Really enjoyed this. I don't know if this is a bug, but I was getting the same people twice (clones), and that makes it more difficult because they share similar slots. There should be a clear way of seeing how much money you earn (or I didn't find one).
Great job.
Very cool game! I liked the tycoon and management aspect but the schedule page got quite chaotic after some time. The graphics were really nice but some, even quite simple, animations would be neat. The room hitboxes were a bit weird as well but I still played this game for much longer than other LD games so far. Good job!
Great game. Took a bit for me to figure it out, but it kind of reminds me of a more complex version of "One Piece Mansion". Great job.
Hey! As I promised, I played the game a bit longer offstream. So, here are my thoughts.
One, I really liked the sound acting, it really added a lot to the game I believe. Still, I had a problem with a person being both notorious sleeper (wants 13 hours of sleep) and liking short sleep (5 hours sleep) in the same time. I don't think that's how it should be. The game also doesn't give enough time to settle down tenant before a new one comes in. I found myself coming a lot from the scheduler to the window that described the person, only to get interrupted by the window of new incomer. I know you could stop time - but for some reason, it seemed to start running again the moment I closed scheduler which was a pain in the ass to remember about.
The aesthetics of the game are great though. It's a pleasure to look at.
So yeah, that's my view. Thank you for linking me the game!
@shozou Thank you for taking your time to play our game, I completely agree with what you are saying. I think the "tenets arrival rate/time" was put that fast was for debugging and we forgot to put it back to a normal pace. Changing it after post would however feel like a content update and would go against the spirit of the Jam.
Hmm.. I was really looking forward playing this, but since it's now web based I can't :( Pl0x tell me if it change!:)
Hello @brallex we made a web version just for you. You can find the link up in the description. Have fun :)
@landberglife Naaw how cute:) Thx!
Thanks for the web version!
Nice work!